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The temporary holding cells were built in an old bus station in McAllen, Texas

Adults and small children are held in pens with tile floors behind metal gates that provide little shelter from the sweltering heat of nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit

The smell of urine and body odor permeates the encampment holding about 1,100 people

Prisoners range from toddlers to the elderly

When you step foot into the control room at the U.S. Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, the first thing that hits you is the smell, writes Brittany Hughes for CNSNews.com

Hovering somewhere between urine and unwashed humanity, the air is thick and hot. The sound inside the circular, glass-enclosed control room is like that of a beehive, humming with the noise of hundreds of voices mixed with buzzers and footsteps.

'This is where we do the processing,' the border patrol agent tells us.

The border patrol officer gestures to a series of white, cinderblock rooms that form a ring around the enclosed control area. Each small space is sealed by a thick gray door, which is kept locked until an officer motions for the switchboard operator to open it.

Beside each door, dozens of tanned faces press against glass windows, watching the movement on the open floor around them. Dozens more lie on the hard floor in the middle of the rooms, or on the wide benches attached to the walls.

Most of the visible faces belong to young children or teens; the adults are usually clustered in the back or tending to toddlers and infants.

The scene is devastating, and it's only one of several windows into the illegal immigration crisis that's sweeping across the Rio Grande Valley Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border. Since October 2013, more than 181,000 illegal immigrants have already crossed this 250-costal-mile area alone, and the McAllen, Texas station has been the hardest hit.

Border patrol officers are doing the best they can, but they simply aren't equipped to handle the masses that have flooded their facilities.

The people - all Latinos, as far as I can tell - are divided into several groups: family units are crammed into several rooms, teens 14 and under in the next, teens 15 and older in another, and single men and women in separate holding areas on the other side of the circle.

People of all ages and genders - anywhere from young children to old men - are systematically brought out of their rooms to be 'processed,' which involves taking down any identification, background, where they say they're headed, anything they can provide. It's usually not much.

'This is where they start,' the agent explains over the noise. 'When they're picked up at the border, they come here. Once we've processed them, they're taken to the sally port.'

That's where we head next.

The sally port is a converted bus depot attached to the border patrol station. Typically able to hold upwards of 4 buses at a time, the large, cement-floored space has been converted into a makeshift shelter to house the thousands of illegal immigrants that have been flooding the system since February.

Normally, the border patrol detains people anywhere from 12 hours to three days before turning them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or the Department of Health and Human Services, in the case of unaccompanied minors. But a backlog of people is now forcing them to house people for sometimes more than a week, agents said.

'We've gotten pretty good at logistics,' one agent told us. 'But we're still only working with what we've got.'

The McAllen station is authorized for 380 people, he explains. It's currently housing more than 1,100.
They won't let us in the sally port - the 'folks in Washington' require a scheduled visit for that, they tell us. But they say we can stand outside the locked gates at the bus entrance and look.

I've been outside for all of thirty seconds, but sweat is already starting to bead on my neck by the time I approach the gate to peer inside.

If the scene inside the station's control room is bad, the view into the sally port is appalling.

At first, there doesn't appear to be a floor. Then I realize that's only because I can barely see it through the mass of bodies strewn across the massive space. There are people everywhere - lying down, standing, sitting, stepping over others in a strained attempt to move around. Border patrol agents mill about with clipboards, talking to various people and administering basic medicine.

Off to one side, next to a row of blue porta potties, a group of four young girls are curled up together on the floor, resting on one another's limbs. All four are caked in mud to the knee, most likely from their trip across the border. They remind me of a litter of kittens I once saw, scrunched together in a little ball.

There's a simple strip of yellow crime scene tape that ropes off a small section of the space, the only barrier that separates the healthy from those who have been diagnosed with scabies.

In the 'sick ward,' a mother sits with her back against the locked gate, cradling a small child in her arms. She wipes the sweat from her own forehead before placing a half a dozen wet wipes on the little boy's face and chest, trying to cool him down. A second toddler sits beside her, sucking on a bottle filled with something that looks like orange juice.

Even standing under the force of five jumbo fans and a strong Texas breeze, the stench of unwashed bodies and well-used toilets hangs heavy, stagnating under the sweltering 100-degree heat and making it hard to breathe.

A border patrol bus pulls up to the gate. The doors open and a dozen more immigrants, mostly children, pile out, having come straight from the banks of the Rio Grande where smugglers ferried them from the Mexican bank to the United States. An agent ushers them through the door and into the processing room.

This isn't a dream, and it sure doesn't look like Ellis Island.

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Horrors of temporary prisons on U.S. - Mexico border exposed

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The temporary holding cells were built in an old bus station in McAllen, Texas Adults and small children are held in pens with tile floors behind metal gates that provide little shelter from the sweltering heat of nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit The smell of urine and body odor permeates the encampment holding about 1,100 people Prisoners range from toddlers to the elderly When you step foot into the control room at the U.S.

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Published on May 23, 2015

Explore how science is changing the food that we eat. From double-muscled bulls to featherless chickens, this is breeding on a whole new level. Stepping into the world of transgenics, we encounter rabbits with a jellyfish gene in their DNA (they glow in the dark), and salmon engineered to grow four times faster than normal.

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Animal Pharm: Food For Thought - Real Stories

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Explore how science is changing the food that we eat. From double-muscled bulls to featherless chickens, this is breeding on a whole new level. Stepping into the world of transgenics, we encounter rabbits with a jellyfish gene in their DNA (they glow in the dark), and salmon engineered to grow four times faster than normal.

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OUT OF CONTROL

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Human Race

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A behavioral therapist trying to help his autistic patient was shot by police while lying on the ground with his arms raised in the air. A video recorded on a cell phone, which you can watch above, shows the moments before the shooting in North Miami, Florida.

The victim, Charles Kinsey, who is black, is recovering in the hospital, WSVN-TV reports. The news station obtained the video of the Monday shooting on Wednesday.

The head of the police union told the Miami Herald the officer thought Kinsey was in danger and was aiming at the autistic patient, and missed. The autistic man was not armed, and was holding a toy truck while sitting cross-legged in the middle of the road as his therapist was down on the ground next to him.

The shooting remains under investigation. The officer, Jonathan Aledda, 30, has been placed on administrative leave. No weapons were found at the scene, police said.

Kinsey's attorney, Harold Napoleon, also provided the full video to the Herald. You can watch it below:

The shooting itself was not caught on the cell phone camera.

North Miami Police say they responded to the area of Northeast 14th Avenue and Northeast 127th Street about 5 p.m. on July 18 for a report of an armed man threatening suicide, WPLG-TV reports

Kinsey, 47, told WSVN the "armed man" was his 23-year-old autistic patient, who had run away from a nearby mental health center, where Kinsey works, and was confused.

In the video Kinsey can be heard trying to tell the officers that his patient wasn't holding a gun.

"All he has is a toy truck. A toy truck. I am a behavioral therapist at a group home," Kinsey can be heard saying.

He is also heard in the video trying to calm down the patient, Rinaldo, asking him to stop moving and to get onto his stomach. Kinsey told WSVN he was more afraid police would shoot the autistic man.

Kinsey told the news station that after a few minutes, one of the officers shot him in the leg. The officer fired three times, hitting Kinsey once.

"I'm like this right here, and when he shot me, it was so surprising," said Kinsey, who had his arms raised in the air while talking to a WSVN reporter from his hospital bed Wednesday. "I thought it was a mosquito bite, and when it hit me I had my hands in the air, and I'm thinking I just got shot! And I'm saying, 'Sir, why did you shoot me?' and his words to me were, 'I don't know.'"

Kinsey said that after he was shot he was handcuffed and left bleeding in the street.

North Miami Police issued a statement about the shooting:

There is preliminary information that North Miami Police Officers were dispatched to the scene after a 911 call was received of an armed male suspect threatening suicide. Arriving officers attempted to negotiate with two men on the scene, one of whom was later identified as suffering from autism. The other man was later identified as an employee of an assisted living facility. At some point during the on-scene negotiation, one of the responding officers discharged his weapon, striking the employee.

North Miami Police Chief Gary Eugene said at a press conference Thursday he has asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to lead an independent investigation.

"I realize there are many questions about what happened Monday night. You have questions, the community has questions, we as a city and I personally have questions," Eugene told reporters. "I assure you we will get all the answers."

At a Thursday press conference the Miami-Dade Police Benevolent Association said the officer is a member of the SWAT team. PBA President John Rivera told reporters the officers were trying to help Kinsey:

There was a call about a suicidal man with a gun, the officers already heard that. When they arrived they saw two men, Mr. Kinsey and the other individual, the white male, and it appeared to the officers that the white male was trying to do harm to Mr. Kinsey. The officers, realizing and believing that there was a firearm, and many officers thought the white male had a firearm, only much later when we were able to Monday morning quarterback do we find out it was a toy. Only much later do we find out that the individual was autistic. The officers on the scene did not know that. And fearing for Mr. Kinsey's life, the officer discharged his firearm, trying to save Mr. Kinsey's life. And he missed, and accidentally struck Mr. Kinsey. He thought the white male and his actions were such that he felt Mr. Kinsey's life was in danger.

Rivera also said the video from the scene "is being portrayed poorly."

He said "many in the media are saying you can clearly hear Mr. Kinsey. Well if you can clearly hear Mr. Kinsey, why does every news outlet have to put subtitles. You can't clearly hear Mr. Kinsey."

He also said the person who filmed the incident did so at a different vantage point and from much closer than where the officers were.

"Folks, being a police officer has always been difficult. And lately, it's been more difficult, and more challenging," Rivera said. "Sometimes police officers do wrong and we let the system work. And sometimes police officers do right and we still crucify them. And then sometimes police officers make mistakes, because at the end of the day, they're not computers, they're not robots, they are God's creation and they make mistakes."

The police union head also read a statement from the officer, in which he said, "I took this job to save lives and help people. I did what I had to do in a split-second to accomplish that. And hate to hear others paint me as something I am not."

Kinsey's attorney, Hilton Napoleon, told the Miami Herald he is in settlement talks with the city.

"They realize this was something inappropriate regarding the shooting," Napoleon said. "If police departments come out more and admit fault, that would probably go a long way."

Kinsey has worked as a behavioral therapist at the MacTown Panther Group Homes for more than a year, his attorney told the Miami Herald.

He went to Miami Northwestern High School and Miami-Dade College, according to his Facebook page.

Read more about Charles Kinsey in Spanish at AhoraMismo.com:

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A behavioral therapist trying to help his autistic patient was shot by police while lying on the ground with his arms raised in the air. A video recorded on a cell phone, which you can watch above, shows the moments before the shooting in North Miami, Florida.

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The United States only has one male weightlifter in their team for the Rio Olympics. Kendrick Farris is the only male weightlifter for the U.S he also happens to be a vegan. During the olympic trials Kendrick broke the U.S record by lifting 800 pounds.

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